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OOMBINEDDRAFT EYE AND HOLDBAGK FOR HARNESS HAMES.

Patented July 19,1881.

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FRANK A. BINGHAM, OF ROME, NEW YORK.

COMBINED DRAFT-EYE AND HOLDBACK FOR HARNESS-HAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,428, dated July 19, 1881.

Application filed J une 13, 1881. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, FRANK A. BINGHAM, of Rome, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Draft-Eye and Holdback for Harness-Hames, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means of connecting the hold-back ring and tug-eye to the hame, which shall afford greater rigidity and security for all of said parts when united.

Prior to my invention it has been attempted to attain the aforesaid result by making the tug-eye in the form of a staple whose shanks or prongs passed through the hame and had their extremities riveted or upset upon the opposite side of the hame. This construction deprived the tug-eye of a proper support, and brought the two holes in the hame for the reception of said staple-pron gs so near each other as to seriously weaken the hame and render the same liable to break at that point. To obviate this defect I form the eye for the holdback ring and the tug-eye in one piece with a stay-plate, which is secured to the hame by extra bolts or rivets a proper distance apart to contain between them sufficient material of the hame to afford the requisite stability for the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are front views of my invention, showing its application to two different styles of hames, and secured by rivets and by bolts respectively; and Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same.

Like letters of reference denote like parts in all the figures.

11 represents the lower section of a wooden hame, said class of hames being usually braced by a metal strap, 8, applied to one or both edges of the hame, as shown, respectively, in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings.

A represents a metal plate fitted to the strap 8 on the outer edge of the hame. Said plate has cast on it or integral with it both the eye a for the holdback-ring "r and the eye b for the tug-iron. The two eyes a and b, thus permanently and rigidly united, are secured to the hame either by rivets e or bolts 0', as shown,

respectively, in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, which rivets or bolts pass through end extensions c c of the plate A, and through the strap or straps s and hame H, and are riveted or upset upon the inner edge of the hame. By means of the extensions 0 c the rivetsor bolts 0 e are placed a proper distance apart to retain sufficient material of the hame between them to aflord the requisite strength for. the hame, and also thoroughly brace the plate A against lateral strain.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An improved article of manufacture, consistin g of the stay-plate A, holdback-ring eye a, tug-eye b, and extensions 0 0, all formed in one piece, substantially as described and shown. 1

2. The stay-plate A, having the holdbackring eye a, tug-eye b, and extensions 0 c, all formed in one piece with said plate, and adapted to be secured to the hame by bolts or rivets inserted through holes in the extensions 0 c, substantially in the manner and for the purpose shown and set forth. 7

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Rome, in the county of Oneida, in the State of New York, this 10th day of June, 1881.

FRANK A. BINGHAM. [L. s.]

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W. B. Buss, R. O. BRIGGS. 

